Solved cases in Massachusetts

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  Industrial park, John Dietsch Boulevard, North Attleborough, Massachusetts · 2013

  Murder of Odin Lloyd

  Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player, was shot and killed in an industrial area of North Attleborough, Massachusetts, on June 17, 2013. Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez was convicted of his murder in 2015; two other men were convicted as accessories after the fact.

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  34 Fairview Road, Canton, Massachusetts · 2022

  Death of John O'Keefe

  Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found unconscious and dying on a lawn in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022; his girlfriend Karen Read was charged with killing him with her car but was acquitted of all major charges after two trials, amid allegations of a flawed investigation.

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  Cohasset, Massachusetts, United States · 2023

  Murder of Ana Walshe

  Ana Walshe, a Serbian-American real estate executive, was reported missing from her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on January 4, 2023. Her husband, Brian Walshe, was convicted of her first-degree murder on December 15, 2025, after previously pleading guilty to misleading the police investigation and improperly disposing of her body.

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  Fairhaven, Massachusetts · 2012

  Death of Conrad Roy

  Conrad Roy III, 18, died by suicide in his truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in July 2014. His girlfriend, Michelle Carter, then 17, was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging him via text and, on a final phone call, telling him to get back into his carbon-monoxide-filling truck.

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  Breakheart Hill Farm, Saugus, Massachusetts · 1900

  Murder of George E. Bailey

  George E. Bailey was shot and dismembered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus, Massachusetts, in October 1900. His employee, John C. Best, was convicted of the murder and executed in 1902.

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  Braintree, Massachusetts, United States · 1927

  Sacco and Vanzetti

  Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in 1921 of murdering a guard and a paymaster during a 1920 Massachusetts payroll robbery; despite worldwide protest over alleged bias and disputed evidence, both were executed in 1927, and in 1977 the state proclaimed their trial unfair.

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  Harvard Medical College, North Grove Street, Boston, Massachusetts · 1849

  Parkman–Webster murder case

  Boston physician George Parkman vanished on November 23, 1849, after visiting Harvard Medical College; his dismembered, partly burned remains were found in the laboratory of lecturer John White Webster, who was convicted of murder and hanged in 1850.

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  Memorial Drive near Hayden Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts · 1992

  Murder of Yngve Raustein

  Yngve Raustein, a 21-year-old Norwegian MIT student, was fatally stabbed during a robbery on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 18 September 1992 by three Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School students. All three were caught within 30 minutes and later convicted; the case sparked lasting debate about tensions between Cambridge's universities and local youth.

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  Edgewater Technology offices, Wakefield, Massachusetts · 2000

  Edgewater Technology shooting

  On December 26, 2000, Michael Morgan McDermott, an employee at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts, shot and killed seven coworkers, making it the deadliest mass shooting in Massachusetts history.

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  Plymouth Colony (near Providence–Plymouth trail), Massachusetts · 1638

  Murder of Penowanyanquis

  In July 1638, Penowanyanquis, a Nipmuc man, was robbed and fatally stabbed near a trail between Providence and Plymouth Colony by four runaway indentured servants. He lived long enough to identify his attackers, three of whom were tried, convicted, and executed in September 1638.

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